According to the policy adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact information a domain name is registered with must be valid and accurate all the time. Moreover, this information is freely visible on WHOIS lookup web sites and while this may not be a problem for firms, it may not be very convenient for individuals, since everybody can view their names and their personal email and street addresses, particularly in an age when identity fraud is not that atypical. That is the reason why registrars have launched a service that hides the details of their customers without editing them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. If it’s active, people will view the details of the domain registrar, not those of the domain owner, if they perform a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain extensions, but it’s still impossible to hide your details with certain country-code ones.
Whois Privacy Protection in Website Hosting
You can quickly activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you have registered through our company if you’ve got a website hosting account with us. This can be done through the same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you administer the web hosting account itself, so you will not need to sign in and out of different Control Panels. In the very same section where all your active domain names will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each domain whose extension supports this option. The status of each icon will quickly let you know whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a certain domain or not and by clicking on that icon you can activate the service if you have not done so during the account activation procedure. Moreover, you will also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using the exact same icon and the change will take effect instantly.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Activating Whois Privacy Protection for any domain is stunningly easy if you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. As long as the domain name is registered through us, it will be listed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with each and every semi-dedicated server plan. In case a given generic or country-code domain supports Whois Privacy Protection, you’ll notice a tiny sign to the right of that domain. To activate the service, you’ll need to click on it. In the exact same way, you can also renew or disable the service. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name during the account order process as well, but since the service is optional, we’ll give you the opportunity to add it to any of your domains at a later point in time in case you think things over and opt to conceal your private information from the general public after you’ve already created the semi-dedicated account.